For each -ing form, identify whether it indicates progressivity, or whether it is present participle, adjective, or gerund.

I don’t find his presentation particularly convincing.

Being

It’s rather frustrating

The idea of convincing

Ok, now I’m just being

When the speech was over, I happened to be standing

Understanding

She showed no sign of tiredness; she didn't quite look as if she had been following

Discovering

Determine the type of transitivity of the given senses of GET. 

1.      I just don’t get what he means by that.

2.      We got John to the station quite late in the night.

3.      We tried to get the teacher drunk.

4.      Don’t worry, you will get used to it.

5.      It’s getting better day by day. 

6.      I’m parched. Could you get me a drink? 

7.      The attendant will help you to get it on the board. 

8.      She got me angry.

9.      I only got the letter on Monday.

10.   First, I got myself a dress to wear.

Determine the type of transitivity of the underlined verbs.

(1) The restrictions made people tired. 

(2) They remained there.

 (3) She laid the book on the shelf.

(4) Most commentators place Trump on the far right of the political spectrum.

(5) May was the prime minister negotiating Brexit.

(6) Alistair Burt had told MPs that he now accepted the result of the referendum.

(7) Lewis Rogers was a gunner who survived the war, but his brothers did not.

(8) In New Hampshire, Christie taught Rubio a lesson in stage performance.

(9) They introduced the term instead of the cumbersome "strongly interacting particles".

(10) Rubio wants to modernize the Republican party.

(11) I found the results very surprising.

(12) Campi Flegrei's eruption may have killed the Neanderthals.

(13) I talked her out of it.